So it looks like the Medicare recipients will all have their
physicians pay kept 25% less, while who knows how many are in the
100% to 400% above poverty ranks who will be subsidized while their
physicians continue to make less for treating them.
Will getting the lowest pay for Medicare and Medicaid attract more
physicians or push them into not taking any of the "new"
15 to 45 million new Medicaid and 4 million new Medicare patients
that turn 65 each year, or perhaps drop out of these programs that
require more tasks performed and more records kept for less in
payments.
What student would chose becoming a physician over the many other
careers whose payments aren't controlled by the government?.

Randy DNP

10/17/13

Does anyone know how much we would have to cut drug payments under
Medicare and fix prices at that level to pay for the doc fix?.

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